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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72157</law_id><section_number>62.1-82</section_number><catch_line>Control and regulation by State Corporation Commission; existing rights of riparian owners</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="62.1">Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Water-Power Development, Conservation of Hydroelectric Power Dams and Works</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The control and regulation on the part of the Commonwealth of the development of the waters of the Commonwealth shall be paramount, and shall be exercised through the agency of the State Corporation Commission, sometimes in this chapter referred to as the Commission; provided, however, nothing contained in this chapter shall deprive any riparian owner of any right which he may have, under existing <span class="dictionary">law</span>, except by due and further process of <span class="dictionary">law</span> upon the exercise of eminent domain and upon the payment of just compensation for any such right.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 62-70; 1968, c. 659.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
